- Are your children having a difficult time adjusting to a divorce or separation?
- Are you and your spouse not on the same page when it comes to parenting?
- Do your children constantly fight with one another?
- Does it feel like your kids are out of control? Do they only listen when you yell?
- Are you struggling to parent your special needs child?
- Are your children struggling to adjust to being part of a blended family?
Family Therapy & Parenting Counseling
Family Therapy and Parenting
Help with Parenting
Often learning new parenting techniques can go a long way in changing the family dynamics. It’s about learning to talk so your kids will listen, and listen so your kids will talk. Raising children is a tough job and as the saying goes “kids don’t come with directions”. Some of us do what our parents did, others make an effort to do the exact opposite. In either case, when it doesn’t work we are at a loss.
Learning new parenting techniques requires:
- An understanding of child development
- Building skills that help the parents
- Strengthening their connection to their children
- Establishing clear expectations
- Setting and following through with limits.
Family therapy works because it is reality. The greatest support a child can get is from the family.
– Arthur Maslow, Ackerman Institute for the Family
You Can Take Back Control
If you’re ready to move forward with less doubt and greater confidence, we invite you to call (248) 563-0587 for a free consultation or schedule an appointment online.
Family Therapy
Family therapy can help with these problems so you can experience a peaceful home. Each individual of a family makes up a part of the whole, so what happens to one or two members impacts the entire family. For example, constant arguing between an adolescent child and parents will also impact younger children in the family. In family therapy, family members work together to reconnect, strengthen existing resources and find solutions to tough problems. Family therapy works because families and the relationships within them are the most powerful agents for change.